This book argues that globalization is not an exotic and new phenomenon. The authors collected here study globalization from the vantage point of long-term global history, thereby enabling them to assess the extent of ongoing transformations and to compare them to earlier iterations.

1. Globalizations, Global Histories, and Historical Globalities 2. Globalizing History and Historicising Globalization 3. The Global Animus: In the Tracks of Historical Consciousness 4. Civilizing Processes and International Societies 5. Globalizations: The First Ten, Hundred, Five Thousand, and Million Years 6. The Big Collapse: A Brief Cosmology of Globalization 7. [Re} Peripheralization, [Re] Incorporation, Frontiers and Nonstate Societies: Continuities and Discontinuities in Globalization Processes 8. Growth/Decline Phases and Semiperipheral Development in the Ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian World-Systems 9. Early Iron Age Economic Expansion and Contraction Revisited 10. Dark Ages: Ecological Crisis Phases and System Transition 11.Three Steps in Globalization: Global Networks from 1000 B.C.E. to 2050 C.E. 12. Globalization Began in 1571 13. Colonies in a Globalizing Economy, 1815-1948